Stan Sinberg, Special to the Chronicle-Published 4:00 am, Friday September 19, 2003
Please Note: This group has been put on hiatus temporarily
On the last Monday of each month, about a dozen aspiring filmmakers gather at the Aroma Cafe next door to the Rafael Film Center Theater in San Rafael, trying to jumpstart their movie careers. Each member of the loose-knit networking group, called FILM (Film Independent League of Marin), gets to pitch themselves: what they do, their projects and what they’re looking for.
Although each person is allotted five minutes, almost no one takes longer than two.The group began as a way to finance a film project, but has evolved into a networking organization; its main objective is to help people find work, said Virginia Travers, 50, who runs Lunaventure, a film and production company.Travers began the group with Scott Amour several months ago.Travers, who’s worked as a street artist in San Francisco for 15 years, says she’s never seen the Bay Area film industry so dormant.The group members represent a cross-section of people involved to a greater or lesser extent in the industry..
